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Information technology

Information technology (IT) or information and communication technology (ICT) is the technology required for information processing. In particular the use of electronic computers and computer software to convert, store, process, transmit, and retrieve information.

Topics:

• Computer science
• Information science
• World Wide Web
• Digital library
• Pattern recognition
• Data management
  • Data processing
  • Data mining
  • Metadata
• Data storage
  • Database
  • Data networking
• Technology assessment
• Cryptography
• ITIL
• Information technology governance
• and many more...

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